Paintings including masterpieces by Rubens and Tintoretto that were stolen from a Verona museum last year have been found in Ukraine, Italy’s culture minister said Wednesday. …read more Source: South China Morning...

Paintings including masterpieces by Rubens and Tintoretto that were stolen from a Verona museum last year have been found in Ukraine, Italy’s culture minister said Wednesday. …read more Source: Muscat...

BEIRUT (AFP) – Syrian regime forces Wednesday battled jihadists who cut a key supply route west of ancient Palmyra, after new bombardments hit Aleppo city where a ceasefire was due to expire at midnight.The latest fighting comes as world powers prepare to meet in Vienna next week to try to revive peace talks aimed at ending a five-year...

US Secretary of Defense Ash Carter testifies on operations against the Islamic State, on Capitol Hill in Washington, US, April 28, 2016. REUTERS BUCHAREST: The United States’ European missile defence shield goes live on Thursday almost a decade after Washington proposed protecting NATO from Iranian rockets and despite Russian warnings that...

‘We will continue to love all four of our children equally,’ say Australians Anthony Maslin and Marite Norris. ‘Violet brings some hope and joy for us’A Western Australian couple who lost their three children when Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 was shot down over Ukraine have welcomed the arrival of a baby daughter.MH17 was brought...

Russia completed on Wednesday the construction of energy bridges linking Crimea, putting an end to the peninsula’s reliance on Ukraine for its electricity. …read more Source: China Internet Information...

There have been machines that move themselves for millennia. In the first century C.E., the Greek mathematician Hero of Alexandria designed dolls that could be used to act out miniature theatrical scenes. The original treatises he wrote about these automata were lost to history. But a group of Sicilian scholars discovered Arabic translations in...

The United States’ European missile defense shield goes live on Thursday almost a decade after Washington proposed protecting NATO from Iranian rockets and despite Russian warnings that the West is threatening the peace in central Europe. Amid high Russia-West tension, U.S. and NATO officials will declare operational the shield at a remote...